First,
thanks to Irbisty for the new art!
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I
couldn't come up with a short and pithy piece of flavor text to
explain the concept of Sewerlife, so I opted to not put anything at
all. I think this is the kind of card that seems all negative on the
surface, but can be part of an interesting strategy, where you might
intentionally lower your Endurance stat so that you'll never be
converted by Torment, but rather Killed more often as a result,
causing Locations to be flipped, and causing people to fear trying to
convert you by Torment.
I
decided to flip the colors of The Awoken and Dreamers for thematic
reasons (also working right because Dreamscape is a Blue Location),
but for now, the attributes remain the same. I like to think that
The Infinite would be against Frenzies on philosophical
principle—though, surely, a player can't win without using a few.
But the attributes are good enough on this card that it's great for
defense almost no matter what.
I
considered some pun for flavor text for Dustchildren, something about
sweeping out the dust, but I think the card is meant to be more
serious than that, and I didn't want to ruin the mood of it. So
instead, the special rules are all you get for it, which display that
theme without being too obvious. I might revisit the card later and
add some flavor text, but sometimes I like the stony silence and the
glare of the characters in the art.
Medical
Frigate is one of those cards where thematically it makes sense that
if the opponent crusader would be killed, it isn't, since the
Medical Frigate saves the life of the opponent Crusader in return for
conversion. Given this, I think I may change other cards like Nomads
so it reads “When this is Killed...”
I
believe the tall character in the art for Strangest Places is the
central figure in the art for Dustchildren, so when I have a theme
like that, I try to make the art flow right and be of the same
faction. Here, however, Dustchildren is a Blue card, and Strangest
Places is a Red card, so I thought perhaps I might have a quote from
an opposing faction ob Strangest Places. I don't think it's
necessary to make the quote by the Dustchildren themselves, just
another Blue Crusader. I considered Servants of Emptiness or other
simple cards (which typically represent Blue well), but I went with
an attribution of Naomi, who is perhaps thematically a leader. She
might be the smaller figure in the art, so it works well enough. For
a further attribution, I called it a Eulogy, as though instead of
verses or idioms (or quatrains) Naomi's advice always comes in the
form of mourning (as does all Blue, likely).
